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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

It would've been awesome if we could've thrown back to those caps from 1879 somehow. Aside from tossing some numbers on the helmets and block Ms in a few spots, the easiest throwback changes would have been:

1. Actually revert back to the color Maize. Check out the UM football wiki page. Wiki. See to the middle right the UM uniform, and then under it, the colors Maize and Blue. Notice how our uniforms are not "Maize" but more of a highlighter yellow.

This is Maize:

This is now:

Going back to Maize is a simple throwback move.

2. The wings on the helmet forehead gradually went from Five Head down to a Three head now.

This is a Five Head helmet (notice the expansive rise of the Maize, almost to the top of the helmet):

Think receding hairline.

This is now:

A lot thinner, sleeker rise up front. Short and neat.

These simple changes were probably rejected because they do not offer a sharp enough contrast to generate sales... Who knows. We haven't see the helmets yet, but I hope the wings are so high they make the rise of all our players' forehead look like those of every 40-50 yr old alum reading this blog.

While it is possible to trademark a color (e.g., Owens Corning's pink for insulation), there is almost no chance that Nike or Adidas has any intellectual property rights to any variation of the color maize (or any other color).

That image confirms that stripes were at least used at one point. So the new stripes do somewhat harken back to something tangible in the past. No one's great grandparents were alive to have witnessed it though. That does, however, bring up the interesting fact of just how long football has been played at Michigan and how short our collective experience of it is.

Well...I've been watching Michigan games since the age of 5; so that would be 1955. Michigan has been playing football for 132 years, so that means I've been a Michigan fan for about 42% of the time they've been playing football.

"The colormaize or corn refers to a shade of yellow; it is named for the cereal of the same name—maize (the cereal maize is called corn in the Americas). In public usage, maize can be applied to a variety of shades, ranging from light yellow to a dark shade that borders on orange, since the color of maize may vary."

Can you even be sure that your eyes and my eyes see the same color? We all learned that that swatch is a shade of yellow, but maybe yellow to my eyes is red to your eyes! And red is blue! We'd NEVER KNOW. We know that Maize and Blue is the best color combo there is, but maybe Maize as processed by your brain looks like red as processed by my brain. we look at the same swatch, they are called the same color, but how our brain processes it might be totally different

Can't people just leave this shit alone! Supposedly the players love the throwbacks and no one has seen what the whole throwback combo looks like yet. Regardless, this is a one game deal and nothing permanent.

"They will meet a dastardly fate here for that! There isn't a Michigan Man who wouldn't like go out and scalp those Buckeyes right now."